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New MGM Grand Complex

MGM Grand Inc., which owns a luxury airline and the Desert Inn & Casino of Las Vegas, Nev., said today it plans to build an entertainment complex in Las Vegas. The $100 million complex will include a new MGM Grand hotel, a movie theme park and a studio tour.

MGM Grand is a publicly held company controlled by Kirk Kerkorian, the financier who also controls the MGM/UA Communications Company.

MGM Grand said it wants to use its name for the new theme park, but the Walt Disney Company has objected to that plan. Disney has leased the MGM name - though not the MGM Grand name - from MGM/UA for its Disney-MGM Studios theme park in Orlando, Fla.

MGM Grand said it had sued Disney, seeking permission to use the MGM Grand name. MGM Grand obtained a license to use its name in 1980 from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the predecessor of MGM/UA.

The MGM Grand theme park in Las Vegas is scheduled to open in late 1992. The new MGM Grand hotel will have 4,000 rooms, the company said. A fire at the original MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas in 1980 killed 84 people. That hotel was sold to the Bally Manufacturing Corporation in 1985 and was renamed Bally's Grand.

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A version of this article appears in print on September 20, 1989, on Page D00020 of the National edition with the headline: New MGM Grand Complex. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe